24 March 2016 Devonport Flagstaff

March 24, 2016

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The possibility of three major developments occurring on the Devonport peninsula at the same time has been largely averted, with a 7.15 ha block around Plymouth Crescent being rejected as a Special Housing Area (SHA).

Ngati Whatua owns the land, but its application to have it deemed an SHA

(which allows for accelerated development) was declined last week, Rob Hutchison, head of Ngati Whatua’s commercial arm Whai Rawa, confirmed to the Flagstaff.

Ngati Whatua already has an SHA classification for its 7.25 ha Hillary block, which is set for development in 2018. This coupled with the construction of the massive

Ryman Healthcare retirement village on Ngati Whatua’s Wakakura block will add traffic to the already congested Lake Rd. It is now likely that development of the Plymouth Crescent block will proceed after the Hillary block (north of Eversleigh Rd).

Development breather for Devonport

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From Narrow Neck to Rio

Going for gold… local sailor and now Olympian Paul Snow-Hansen, after the announcement of the Kiwi Olympic yachting team, at Narrow Neck beach last week. Pictured with his parents Christine Hansen and Derek Snow, grandparents Dorothy and Len Snow, and Wakatere commodore Ben Morrison (at back). Full story page 3.

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Heritage building potential showcase for seismic strengthening Seismic strengthening of the former Devonport Borough Council building on Victoria Rd is being investigated by Auckland Council.

Joseph Bergin, Chair of the DevonportTakapuna Local Board, says at a March meeting with Auckland Council’s property department, staff discussed the possibility of seismic strengthening for the building and council is now costing out the project.

These were “very initial discussions,” said

More time to lobby for council building to remain in community use If the former Devonport Borough “It would combine a proper information Council building underwent seismic centre, run with the help of local strengthening, it would give a community- volunteers, with space rented out to local focused facility more time to prepare a tourism-related businesses,” he said. proposal for usage of the ground floor of “We have secured the second floor http://dogtec.org/dogwalkingthe building, said Devonport-Takapuna for community use, but it is important Local Board member Mike Cohen. to keep the academy.php entire building in public Cohen wants a “Matakana-like” i-SITE ownership.” for the space.

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Bergin, but he praised the idea as “a massive opportunity to showcase the seismic upgrade of a heritage building as an example for privateproperty owners.” A strengthened building would also reduce future operating costs in terms of insurance premiums, he said.

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March 24, 2016

Keeping it local on the road to Rio Bayswater is the Olympics training ground for Wakatere Boating Club sailor Paul SnowHansen, because it offers similar sea conditions to Rio de Janeiro.

The strategy has already paid off. SnowHansen (25) and his 470-class crew, Daniel Willcox, won silver at the 470 World Championships in Argentina last month.

Snow-Hansen said he and Willcox have had “a really good six months sailing out of Bayswater, off the Marina, a lot.

“Sailing locally works well logistically. It’s easy access and gives us more time on the water.

We will keep it mostly local until we head off to the games,” he said.

The pair have tested the waters around Rio as well. “We have been there four or five times now. The water is similar there, and enjoyable, but the environment is not as safe as here,” he says.

Terry Nicholas, Chair of the Yachting New Zealand Olympic Committee and also a Devonport local, says training from Bayswater is a very deliberate move.

“We set up a temporary Olympic base there, and while we are kind of squatting out there on the grass, it allows the sailors to train in the harbour, which has similar conditions to the harbour course in Rio,” he said.

“It also meant we could take advantage of the New Zealand summer and normalise the environment for the sailors by keeping them close to home,” he says.

Snow-Hansen and Willcox regularly train alongside the 470 women’s team, Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, who won gold in London four years ago and also won silver in Argentina at the world champs. Both teams are currenlty coached by former Olympian and Wakatere sailor Nathan Handley and Dan’s father Hamish Willcox, a three-time 420 world championship winner.

Nicholas says Snow-Hansen is in good shape. “He has matured and developed well as a sailor and widened his range of skills to become a more complete athlete. Plus his growing experience has given him great results.”

Continuing the Olympic tradition… Paul Snow-Hansen (right) poses with his sailing partner Dan Willcox and Bayley Ziegler outside the Wakatere Boating Club Snow-Hansen’s selection for Rio was announced last Monday outside Wakatere Boating Club. Club Commodore Ben Morrison said it was a privilege to have an Olympic sailor in the club for the second time in a row.

This will be Snow-Hansen’s second Olympics in the men’s 470 class. In 2012, he and his crew Jason Saunders placed fifth in London.

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March 24, 2016

Car-spangled banger: mystery vehicle at Narrow Neck A four wheel drive decorated with flowers and an American flag has appeared in the car park at Narrow Neck Beach this month, with a surveillance camera said to be operating from inside.

A sign taped to the unoccupied vehicle’s windscreen, dated 5 March, says: “Surveillance camera operating 24 hours from this vehicle, parked legally, and immediate action will be taken if this vehicle is damaged or towed. Owner is watching!”

The car does not have number plates or a current registration on display.

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Beghin breaks batting record North Shore Cricket captain Graeme Beghin has smashed the club’s season run record, which stood for almost 40 years. But it was a slightly bittersweet experience as the side battles for promotion.

John Little’s record of 929 set in 1976-77 had been hanging over Beghin’s head three weeks ago when the side played Eden Roskill.

He needed 17 runs, but scored only three in his first innings and was not put in to bat again.

But then playing at home last weekend against Grafton, Beghin hit 62, taking his season total to 977.

“It was great to do it at home with all my mates and the crowd watching,” he said. It is likely to be Beghin’s last innings of the season as he is unlikely to bat this Saturday in the final game of the season.

Shore have a mathematical chance of gaining promotion to the top league if they bowl Grafton out twice on Saturday – taking

18 wickets in a day. Howick Pakuranga also have to lose their match against Eden Roskill.

Beghin said the side would be giving it everything on Saturday, but regardless of the result had played good cricket in 2015-16.

This year’s Premier side has scored eight centuries, the most of any side in the club’s history, compared to the next best, six, hit around 90 years ago. A number of batting partnership records were also set, along with Beghin’s season record and the side’s historic 20/20 Auckland Championship win.

Its difficulty has been the ability to beat the top side. It drew and lost against Howick Pakuranga in 2015-16, much the same as it did against Cornwall in 2014/15.

But Beghin will be back next season. “It is being finalised at the moment. I want to continue to coach and stay in New Zealand. I can see my future here – it’s a great club and community.”

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Sam Cangir, the former long-time owner of Victoria Rd restaurants Mecca and Number One Bistro, has opened his latest eatery on Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna.

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March 24, 2016

By Rob Drent

In more than 30 years in journalism, my contacts with developers have been at best uneasy, at worst confrontational.

Developers buy land and attempt to maximise the amount of money they can make off it. As a newspaper, we are a watchdog for the community, and cramming houses into sometimes unsuitable areas is bound to create conflict and unease amongst residents.

Therefore I was surprised to finish an interview with Rob Hutchison last week feeling cautiously optimistic.

Hutchison is the chief executive of Whai Rawa, the commercial arm of Ngati Whatua, which owns 28.7 ha of land in Devonport.

Whai Rawa has been granted a Special Housing Area (SHA) status, which allows accelerated development on its 8 ha Hillary block, and has just lodged a Framework Plan that outlines the broad concept for the land.

While Hutchison makes no bones about it being a commercial development, the shape of the Framework Plan has much to recommend it: lower-density houses on the edges and limited intensification towards the water. The taller

buildings will be in the middle of the site.

This land, formerly owned by the Navy, was always going to redeveloped in some form by either the Navy itself or Housing New Zealand – the sites were always far too large for the homes on them. In the end it was sold to Ngati Whatua.

Using crude maths, the population living at the Hillary block will quadruple with the development (from roughly 250 people now to more than 1,000).

While concerns about added Lake Rd congestion and pressure on schools remain, the development has strong points as well. An overall concept to make the most of the site, and the likelihood of homes designed to fit in both style and sustainability, is much better than the ad hoc result of infill or many subsdivision sell-offs.

Its progress will be eagerly watched as Ngati Whatua has another 7 ha block at Plymouth Crescent that will also be developed. Hillary will likely be the blueprint.

It will be cruel luck if the North Shore Cricket premier side doesn’t get promoted to the Premier Auckland competition. Leading the second division for much of the 2015-2016 season, a strong finish by Howick Pakuranga has left Shore’s hopes clinging by a thread going into the final weekend’s matches over Easter.

Shore won the Auckland 20/20 cricket this season and batsman Graeme Beghin smashed a long-standing season runs record held by John Litte,. But how much would the side have given to get back into the top echelon?

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Henry reaches ahead in local 420-class rivalry Devonport sailor Henry Haslett won the 420 Class National Championships for the second year in a row, with fellow local yachtie Jonathon Weston in second spot.

Henry (16) crews a boat with Josh Berry at the helm. The pair dominated the four-day regatta off Kohimarama Beach, winning 10 out of 12 races. At the finish they were 18 points clear of Jonathon (15), who helms a boat with Taylor Balogh.

Henry and Josh won the regatta’s first two races, which helped them establish a small lead over Jonathon and Taylor on day one. The pair then won all seven races over the next two days. “We pulled away a little bit,” says Henry. A last win on day four was just the icing on the cake. “We only had to race in one of the races that day but we ended on a high,” he says.

Last October, Jonathon and Henry famously competed against each other to represent New Zealand in the 420 at the Youth World Sailing Champs in Langkawi, Malaysia, with Jonathan winning by a single point.

Henry and Josh had a strong lead-up to the national event, improving consistently over summer. In December, they came eighth in Sail Melbourne and fifth in Sail Sydney. A month later, they came second

Winning team…Henry Haslett and Josh Berry in both the Australian Nationals and the Australian Youth Sailing Championships.

And in February, they won Sail Auckland, four points ahead of Jonathon and Taylor.

The decisiveness of the victory at the nationals came as a surprise to them, says Henry’s father Angus Haslett. “The boys probably didn’t expect to win. They hoped it would be close. But I am very proud to say they sailed a beautiful regatta.”

Henry says group training with other 420 sailors, including Jonathon and Taylor,

and sailing in Australian regattas has been rewarding. “Big-fleet racing really accelerates the speed of your learning and your sailing,” he says.

Next on the calendar are more Australian regattas in preparation for the 420 World Champs in Italy in July. “And the end goal is to get to represent New Zealand in this year’s youth worlds,” he says.

Henry’s sister Amelia (14) also sails the 420 Class and was the fourth girl home at the national champs.

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Devonport’s biggest development moves up a gear More detail emerged last week on Ngati Whatua’s plans to develop 8.4 ha of land at the Hillary block between Hauraki and Bayswater, with scope for up to 350 houses. Rob Drent spoke to project head Rob Hutchison about what’s ahead at Devonport’s biggest construction site.

In property, timing is everything and the $119 million Ngati Whatua paid in 2012 for seven blocks of Ministry of Defence land in Devonport was spot-on by the investment clock.

Rob Hutchison, chief executive of Whai Rawa, commercial arm of Ngati Whatua Orakei, refuses to talk about the current valuation of the land, but it must be north of $150 million – and that’s undeveloped.

Whai Rawa is very keen to maximise the commercial return on its landholdings. Its Wakakura block has already been leased to Ryman Healthcare, who have announced plans for a retirement village there.

Last week, Whai Rawa submitted a Framework Plan to Auckland Council for resource consent to develop its 7.25 ha Hillary block – the first stage towards development.

Hutchison says, currently “there is no budget as such. To date we have concentrated on developing a great project.”

Hutchison knows the land well, as both a former Devonport resident and former chief executive of North Shore City Council.

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An artist’s impression of how the Hillary-block development may look Housing Area (SHA) designation – which allows for accelerated development without public submissions – but Hutchison sees advantages for the public in this as well.

The ability to develop as a larger block through a Framework Plan process allows for a comprehensive development, rather than the continuation of the status quo on the peninsula – most of it infill housing.

A large site offers better use of open space, additional parks and cycleways, improved flow through the area, new roading, and upgraded footpaths and infrastructure services, such as underground power, he says.

Lower-rise housing on the boundaries allows for “softer edges”. The geography of the site – sloping to the west – also means the taller housing can be located less obtrusively, he says.

Aerial shots seen by the Flagstaff last week show much more open space in the development than in the crammed nearby infill

housing.

The Navy’s current leases on 84 houses on the Hillary block will run until 2018, when Whai Rawa hopes to start construction at the site. The five-year building programme will be managed in stages, the first likely to produce 10 to 20 houses, “depending on the market.” says Hutchison.

A mixture of homes is planned, with 10 per cent having to be “affordable” under the SHA designation. In today’s market, prices would range from $550,000 to $2 million for standalone properties closest to the waterfront. Some will be apartments and town houses. The tallest buildings will be six levels (five storeys, as one is underground.)

The timing of the development and release of houses to the market will to a large extent depend on the market itself.

Hutchison says it is difficult to gauge where the property market will be in 2018. “My

Project Scope • The Hillary block currently comprises of 82 Navy-occupied houses on about 8.4 hectares of land, bordered by Eversleigh Road and Rutherford Street, with Hillary Crescent running through the middle of the site. The Ministry of Defence sold the land to Ngati Whatua Orakei four years ago, as part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement.

• The Master Plan features a range of different housing types, including single houses, semi-detached dwellings, town houses and apartments (no higher than six levels).

• Between 300 and 350 new houses will

be built, resulting in a density similar to existing Auckland suburbs such as Ponsonby.

• The development will be done in stages and take about five years to complete.

• Work is expected to start in early 2018, with the first residents likely to move in by late 2019.

• At this stage, Whai Rawa hasn’t considered who will build the development, as there are a lot of civil works and infrastructure upgrades to progress first.

Ngati Whatua on the peninsula • Ngati Whatua have 28.7 ha of landholdings in Devonport: Wakakura Crescent, 4.25 ha; Plymouth Crescent, 7.14 ha; Beresford St, 0.96 ha; Hillary Crescent, 7.25 ha; Birchfield Rd, 1.86 ha; Marsden St, 4.08 ha and Vauxhall Rd, 3.2 ha.

• Whai Rawa is a subsidiary of the Ngati Whatua Orakei Trust.

• Its principal objective is to maximise financial returns and generate wealth for the trust for the long-term benefit of Ngati Whatua Orakei’s 5,000-plus members.

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March 24, 2016 experience is that when the property market stops, it stops abruptly.” The construction of houses will slow if demand does.

Whai Rawa has yet to decide on a project structure – i.e. who will build the homes and how this is managed. “There are a number of options and they are still all possibilities,” says Hutchison.

Options include having a lead contractor build the entire development or Whai Rawa taking a closer project-management role.

No community buildings, such as earlychildhood centres, a community hall or marae are planned in the project. However, Hutchison says, “we will be providing other community facilities such as parks, walkways and cycleways.”

Most probably, the homes will be sold freehold, as there is huge resistance in the market to leasehold land, Hutchison says. But Whai Rawa may look at some sort of tenure (possibly along the lines of a 999-year lease), under which the land could eventually return to Ngati Whatua, he said.

There is no specific provision for housing for Ngati Whatua Orakei iwi in the project, although Hutchison says, “We hope there will be housing opportunities for iwi members.”

Hutchison hopes Defence Force personnel will buy houses as well.

Overall, it should appeal to a wide range of buyers, he says. The development provides a choice of housing, which will allow, for example, single older people living in large, family houses nearby to move into a more appropriate dwelling if they want to stay in their local community.

While Hutchison acknowledges the project is primarily commercial, the aim is to make it something to be proud of as well: a lasting legacy to the coastal site.

Several streets will be realigned and new roads built to better service the area.

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Whai Rawa CEO Rob Hutchison The old sewerage network, limited stormwater treatment and other ageing infrastructure, will all be replaced, improving the health of the Waitemata Harbour.

Integrating sustainable design into housing is also an important part of the project, Hutchison says. Solar panels and other green technologies will be considered.

In a development of 30 houses at Orakei, for example, Ngati Whatua installed solar panels with the latest Teslar batteries.

Asked how wide the coastal strip around the seaward boundary would be, Hutchison says: “It will be wide – no specific depth but generous.”

The green cycleway through the Devonport peninsula will also be linked through the project.

Whai Rawa is working with the Ministry of Education to make sure appropriate school facilities will be in place by 2019.

In the short-term, there may be fewer children, when the site is vacated to enable development. As the housing is occupied, there will be an increase in the school population.

Hutchison says that with the Framework Plan submitted, public meetings to keep locals up to speed were likely.

Who’s involved Some of the key people and firms working on the project: • Leading New Zealand architect firm Warren & Mahoney has created the Hillary Block Master Plan.

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Email botch-up leaves local board in dark on Ryman development Two lost emails appear to be the reason local representatives are missing details of development plans for the Wakakura Block, three months after Ryman Healthcare filed the resource consent application for a 200 apartment six-storey retirement complex.

The email blunder may have kept the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board (DTLB) from expressing its view on notification of the application within the statutory deadline.

The mistake emerged during a recent briefing of the DTLB when chair Joseph Bergin told Ngataringa Road residents Iain Rea and Gustav Scholtz the board had been advised that “no application has been filed as yet.”

However, Flagstaff queries reveal that the DTLB had been sent the application prior to the briefing as part of the consenting process.

“The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board was asked to comment on the application for the construction of a retirement village on Ngataringa Road in January 2016,” a council spokesperson has confirmed to the Flagstaff.

The council planner handling the Ryman application sent two emails to Dianne Hale, the member responsible for the Board’s Regulatory and Heritage portfolio, but did not hear back from her, the spokesperson says.

No bounce-back email was received by

All Blacks in line-up for lunch All Black greats Jerome Kaino and Jeff Wilson, plus current All Blacks Manager Darren Shand make for an impressive lineup of speakers at this year’s North Shore Rugby Club Leavers Luncheon.

The lunch is a fundraiser for the Year 8 players, all in their last year as juniors at the club. They are heading to the Samoan village of Lotupue on a Leavers Trip in July.

Lotupue high chief and Hauraki resident Malu Tu’isila, whose son Noah is one of the leavers, invited the players to spend five days playing rugby with the local kids in Samoa as a follow-up to the All Blacks’ first game there last year.

The lunch is on Friday 1 April, from noon until 4 pm, at the Devonport Yacht Club.

Tickets are $115 per person or $1,050 for a table of ten. Book at fundraiserlunchdarrenshand-jeromekaino-jeffwilson. eventbrite.co.nz or call Stuart McKay on 021 899 342.

the planner, either. Hale though, says she never received the emails. “I have checked through all of my inbox and they are just not there, even though they clearly were sent to me,” she says.

In Hale’s March report to the board, she says: “I have subsequently discovered that I was requested to provide comments on the Ryman proposal on 20 January. I do not recall seeing the email and searched my email file and could not find it.

“I am not in the habit of deleting resourceconsent related emails so I cannot explain why I didn’t see it or why it isn’t in my inbox.

However, I have asked the planner whether Grant [Gillon] and I are still able to make comment on the application and am awaiting his response.”

The Ryman application has been put on hold since January, as council officers have requested more information from the applicant.

At the 1 March briefing, Hale told Rea and Scholtz that the board could only advocate for notification of the application and had no decision-making power over the issue.

North Head and Fort Takapuna Historic Reserves Weed Spraying The Department of Conservation wishes to notify its neighbours and regular users of the above reserves of its intention to carry out maintenance spraying. Spraying will be undertaken on several days between 1st and 30th April 2016. All spraying will take place during the hours of the standard working week.

Spray application will be carried out by qualified chemical applicators. A temporary marker dye will be added to indicate plants that have been sprayed. A notice advising the public of the spraying taking place that day will be erected at the main entrance points.

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Cycle lanes needed

Owners continue to give dogs a bad name

The Flagstaff (11 March) quotes Daniel Newcombe, Leader of Corridor and Centre Plans at Auckland Transport: The cycle lanes on Lake Rd “would have to be removed” for improvements to be made.

Rather than removal of cycle lanes, increased road space would result from the removal of power poles and median strips.

Surely the use of cycles, electric bikes and motor scooters should be encouraged to reduce cars on the road, particularly where 80 per cent of the cars are occupied by one person only.

Is our planner a negative thinker living in the past?

disposed of over the wall, into a private garden.

This behaviour is not that of a responsible dog owner, being an entirely deliberate gesture of non-compliance, to those unfortunate enough to encounter such parcels.

And dog owners wonder why they enjoy such a bad reputation?

Peter McNab

Some, or is it many, dog owners continue to let the side down. Multiple examples of dog droppings on footpaths, beside remembrance seating on the waterfront, and almost any grassed area have sadly become commonplace.

You have to watch where you are going at all times, and it is unacceptable.

An Anne St resident has encountered a new low, with a bag of dog excrement being

Mike and Jan Martin

• Editor Rob Drent responds: while the cycle lanes in their current form would be removed in a major revamp of Lake Rd, they will undoubtedly be retained in some form as part of a bus and high-occupancy vehicle lane.

Words of wisdom: trees should stay in playground upgrade

Bus service lacking

tree when man-made footpaths stay, when these incidentally, are pulled up and replaced on a daily basis.

For centuries kids have played in and around trees, and now we have to build something. Because it’s safer? Or more convenient?

Surely humans can rationalise this down to using what resources are available and stop chopping trees down.

It’s different if a tree is blocking a drain or damaging foundations, but when the tree is growing in a park and enhancing the surroundings, in the words of Lennon and McCartney, Let It Be. Ian Ferguson

I’m reading my copy of the 11 March Flagstaff about a revamp to the playground at Windsor Reserve.

I suppose playgrounds wear out and there is always something better that can be done to keep the little cherubs safe and entertained.

It’s going well till I get to the part where the young oak tree, that’s not where it should be, gets the chop. Or are they saying it can be shifted?

Knowing how long it takes for an oak to mature, I would suggest the people designing this new playground use some common sense and make that tree an element of the playground as that’s what trees are for.

It seems a nonsense to move or remove a

Re: lead story in Flagstaff, 11 March: Fixing Lake Rd top priority again.

Has it never occurred to Joseph Bergin that the reason most cars on Lake Rd have only one occupant is that it is only one person going to wherever? How many times a week does Joseph Bergin share rides with others? Or is it just everyone else he wants to organise?

It is the bus service that needs attention.

I work right beside the Constellation bus station, but to use the bus I would need to catch three buses to get there and the journey would take well over one hour.

Pay more attention to a bus service that serves the needs of Devonport people and you might get them out of the car.

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Reasons for self-governance The Lake Road widening is just one issue proving the case for Devonport to return to being a self-governing borough. With elections coming up, a question to ponder is whether the renewed Lake Road upgrade is a sop to the electorate that will be taken away again once everyone’s been voted in?

Widening the Belmont to Hauraki Corner section was a key initiative in the 2014 Local Board Plan. A year on, the $54 million allegedly secured for this disappeared. Yet what happened to the Corridor Management Plan (separate budget allocation of $525K), intersection improvements and traffic light phasing also promised in the 2014 plan? And why were the immediate, low-cost interventions now being touted by our local board not implemented as bridging measures from the outset – in particular once the $54 million rebuild was scrapped?

Does anyone know how hard our local board fought to retain this funding? After all, Lake Road congestion remained a “priority problem” for the majority of Devonport ratepayers and road users. But not the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board it would seem – not surprising when the majority don’t live here.

The Vic a wonderful asset Recently, my husband and I have been going to films at The Vic on a weekly basis. It set me thinking what a wonderful asset it is and how lucky we are to have this in Devonport. Finding ourselves in Cinema 2 last night, with eight other people waiting for the film to start, one of them remembered that sometimes the staff forget to start the film. After a gentle nudge, the film started. It didn’t matter; it was all part of the charm of going to The Vic. I would like to thank Margot McRae, and the committee, for the time they have spent and the effort they have put into saving The Vic and turning it into a community asset. They have worked tirelessly over the last few years. They had vision and have given us a first-class venue.

Thank you, Sylvia Emm

If the Lake Rd rebuild has genuinely just jumped out of the canned box to top priority status for Auckland Transport (AT), why do they need to develop an Indicative Business Case to apply for government funding? Are we to believe AT granted $54 million in 2013 without such a case? Surely it’s a reasonable assumption that the large-scale maps highlighting the pinch points have already been developed to an extent that justifies the lack of transparency AT and our local board have shown by refusing to reveal them to the public?

In the interests of transparency, which is our right as the people who are paying for all of this, perhaps AT could supply an Indicative Quote of how much this Indicative Business Case is going to cost the ratepayers and taxpayers and what it will entail? Because if it doesn’t encompass the initial design (including public consultation) that’s another stage to go through before construction commences – while the time ticks by and expenses continue to escalate in tandem with the anticipated increases in congestion.

In the meantime, the local board chair thinks the solution is that Devonport road users should change their travel habits and the widening should comprise high-occupancy vehicle lane(s). Given 80 per cent are single-occupancy vehicles by necessity – which all Devonport locals to whom this applies know – this won’t ease congestion but will encourage more parents to drive their kids to school whilst costing us the same as a dual carriageway.

Yet shouldn’t the form the Lake Rd rebuild takes be decided by the local Devonport community – being the people who are affected and will pay for it in rates, taxes and/or petrol and personal time consumed sitting in those jams? If we were self-governing, perhaps we’d have held on to that secured funding and the widening would be under way by now. As for those contentious developments that AT’s acknowledged will increase congestion, well, that’s another reason for considering selfgovernment.

Cath Hickton-Burnett • Editor Rob Drent responds: Of the six local-board members, two live in Devonport, one in Bayswater and one in Hauraki.

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Hall’s battles captured in a revealing memoir Kevin Hall’s mind and body have taken the wind out of his sails dozens of times. The Olympic and America’s Cup yachtie has had testicular cancer twice and lived with bipolar disorder for the last 27 years. After Artemis Racing’s fatal crash in the lead-up to the 2013 America’s Cup, Hall hung up his sailing gear, became a stay-at-home dad and took up writing. He spoke to Maire Vieth.

A “kind of coming-out book” is how Kevin Hall describes Black Sails White Rabbits, his autobiography that was launched this month.

Hall says his life has been dominated by “trying to maintain the charade that there was nothing to talk about,” after he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 20. At the time he was in his third year at Brown University, an Ivy League college in Rhode Island.

His self-published memoir changes that dramatically. Hall writes about his first manic episode in 1989: “I had headed off to Boston to meet my then girlfriend. But I just got off the bus there and wandered off into the night, thinking I was on the set of a kind of Truman Show and am being watched. I finally jumped out of a tree, nearly flattened a woman and called her ‘Ophelia’ and was arrested and hospitalised.

“I get pretty taken with Hamlet when I am manic,” he says.

Then the “Kevin Show” can take over, where Hall commonly imagines cameras, a film director and movie extras around him, waiting for him to say his lines.

Hall has had many more manic episodes.

“I have countless ones that I have turned around on my own, but there are now 14 where I haven’t, and ended up in hospital,” he says. The last two times he went willingly, but four times he was committed. In 1999, he was arrested at the Sweetwaters Music Festival in Auckland, when he climbed on top of the big-top tent after the Elvis Costello show.

“I was also arrested after coming off an airplane once, after I crashed my car, and in 1991 in Tokyo after running through the baggage claim belts, onto the tarmac and towards a Boeing 747.

“I got all the way underneath it, between the main landing gear struts, when the police arrived. They did not mess around. They surrounded me, took me down with a flash of martial arts and martial law, and drove me

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The years as an America’s Cup sailor mostly kept the mania at bay. The job suited Hall.

“For 14 years I had no troubles because the combination of my schedule, medication and exercise regime was very good for me. The accountability to the team, the discipline of the daily schedule, a clearly defined goal and great people from all walks of life working with you – it all made up for just the right energy and excitement,” he says.

US-born Hall started sailing a Sabot dinghy at the age of five in a Parks and Recreation programme in Ventura, California. The Halls had moved to California from Illinois because sailing was a passion of both his mother, a paediatrician and his father, an emergency department doctor.

Hall loved sailing too, was competitive and became proficient quickly. In 1986, aged 15, he won a gold medal in a Laser at the youth world champs in Greece. A year later, he came fourth at the youth world champs in Australia in the two-person 420 Class.

At college, the same year he had his first manic episode, he started training in the 470 with an eye on the 1992 Olympics. “At the 1990 Pre-Olympics in Barcelona, my sailing partner and I found out we were way too big for the boat. We were constantly trying to lose weight. It didn’t work out,” he says. On the last day of the event, Hall literally jumped ship. “I jumped out of the boat and started swimming for shore,” he writes.

In 1991, Hall graduated from Brown with an honours degree in French literature and

maths and won the North American Laser Championships. He also switched to a different class of boat, the Finn, to have another go at the 1992 Olympics. The Finn is a boat “you can’t be big enough for,” he says. Hall finished eighth in the 1992 US Olympic trials.

The Laser became an Olympic-class boat for the 1996 Atlanta games, and Hall saw a new chance to fulfil his Olympic dream.

There was just one obstacle – Hall’s history of testicular cancer. Amidst manic attacks and sailing ambitions, Hall lost his first testicle to cancer in 1990 and his second two years later.

He now relied on an injection of testosterone, a banned substance, once every two weeks to maintain a normal male testosterone level.

Hall sent his medical file to the US Olympic Committee in 1995, asking to be allowed to race while taking testosterone for therapeutic use. A month later, he won a gold medal in his Laser at the United States Olympic Festival, a preliminary Olympic competition.

Hall didn’t hear back from the Olympic Committee and then a New York Times article made his story public five months before the games. “Many in the field consider Mr Hall to be the best American hope for a medal in the Laser class,” said the article. But the stress of not knowing whether he would be allowed to compete at the Olympics got to Hall during the trials off the coast of Savannah. “I completely fell apart, panicked, capsized and had to be rescued,” he says. Hall now injects a vial of testosterone into his thigh once a week.

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March 24, 2016 for the 2004 Olympics in Athens in the Finn class. He won the trials and earned a spot on the US Olympic Team. Medical files were sent off again. The Washington Post reported that “Hall has a special dispensation from the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) to take testosterone while competing in international regattas, but whether it extends to the Olympics remains an open question.”

Hall says: “Three weeks before the games, I had no papers to say I could go, and I went into shutdown mode. I wouldn’t have won a medal but could have been fifth with a bit of luck,” he says. Instead, he was put through a difficult rigmarole of on-site blood testing and placed 11th. “The good news is I still beat Dean Barker and he was about to be my boss for the next six years,” Hall laughs. Barker had placed 13th.

Hall’s America’s Cup career had begun in Auckland in 1999, when he was a coach for the AmericaOne team. For the 2003 cup, he returned to New Zealand with the US OneWorld team as testing manager and navigator.

Six years as navigator for Team New Zealand followed, including the 2007 America’s Cup in Valencia. “I was there from the beginning of the rebirth-from-the-ashes team, which was exciting. We all worked really hard and came really close in Valencia,” he says. Hall left Team New Zealand in 2009 after he struggled with two manic attacks. Within a week, the Swedish Artemis Racing team had called him, asking him to manage their instruments department for the 2013 America’s Cup in San Francisco.

Hall said yes.

On 9 May 2013, the 72-foot Artemis Racing

catamaran was practising a bearaway in San Francisco Bay. The manoeuvre went horribly wrong. Fellow sailor, Brit Andrew Simpson, died when AC72 capsized. Hall helped pull his body out of the water. Artemis Racing wanted to show resilience in the face of catastrophe by staying in the cup. Hall did not. “It just didn’t feel right to me and I resigned,” he says.

Since then, Hall has followed his long-time passion for writing. He had taken creative

“ They surrounded me, took me down with a flash of martial arts and martial law” – Kevin Hall, on his arrest at Tokyo airport during a manic episode writing classes at Brown. Now he writes howto articles for sailing magazines, a monthly column for Sailinganarchy.com and has started a novel about a character with delusional thought patterns.

However, Hall’s own life story kept appearing in the novel, until it became the basis of a memoir, which Hall wrote over the course of a month in January 2014. “My skills were exercised, I knew the story and it wanted to come out,” he says. The draft novel still lies in a drawer.

Hall has been back in New Zealand since

January 2014, and looks after three children he and his wife Amanda adopted: boys Rainer (11) and Leo (9) and a daughter Stevie (7). The couple met as physics-lab partners at Brown and married 11 years later. Amanda, a New Yorker, is an emergency department doctor at Auckland Hospital.

The last year or so have been bumpy, Hall says. In the book, he talks about a manic episode during a 2014 family reunion after he had changed his medication. He has since had another occurence and was hospitalised for three weeks while Amanda ran the ship at home.

Catching a manic episode early is tricky, he says. “There is a hyper-mania that precedes it and that’s when the better I feel, the sicker I am getting,” he says. Afterwards come the downs.

“So for the last few months it has been quite a few downs for me. I’m not back at baseline yet, but I’m getting there,” he says.

The path back to normality is demanding.

“Just because I am acting reasonably well doesn’t mean that it doesn’t take every ounce of my being to get through the day. By the end of it, I can be hugely exhausted,” he says.

Career-wise, Hall wants to write for a living but admits it’s a risky move. The solitary job doesn’t offer any of the regime that keeps his mood swings stable. “You can kind of not turn up if you don’t want to, you are accountable only to yourself, so it’s a bit of a lonely path.”

However Hall has also returned to sailing.

Days after our interview, he left for Valencia to coach the US Quantum Racing team in the TP52 class.

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Dianne can’t keep away from the stage and lights When Dianne Lamont was killed off as Mrs Boyle in Company Theatre’s production of The Mousetrap four years ago, she thought it was the end of her stage career, But now she is back, aged 80, playing Judy, a victim of failed investments in When Dad Married Fury by David Williamson, now showing at the Rose Centre.

Lamont became interested in theatre at school, where she was a member of the St Mary’s College senior choir under Dame Sister Mary Leo, and appeared in lead roles in Othello and Hamlet. After sitting speech and drama exams, she qualified as a librarian then worked as a ‘radio personality’ presenting women’s programmes in New Zealand before going to London, where she acted with Questors Theatre in Ealing. Back in Devonport, she worked as the librarian at the Naval Base, retiring as Command Librarian after 12 years of service.

Lamont first lived in Devonport in the late 1950s, when she recalls a stint as a fashion model for the “shorter woman”. After living in Wanganui, she returned to Devonport in 1986. She has played lead roles as Maria in New Zealand’s first production of West Side Story and as St Joan in George Bernard Shaw’s St Joan. Her favourite roles have included Helene Hanff in 84 Charing Cross Road and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. She has also worked in TV and film. In the last 20 years Lamont has appeared in 11 plays with Company Theatre. She loves the Company’s choice of plays, from popular comedies to classic dramas, both as an actress and member of the audience.

Lamont is an admirer of David Williamson’s work, so she leapt at the opportunity to appear in When Dad Married Fury, a thought-provoking tragi-comedy about money and marriage. “It is a recently written play on a topical subject, and while set in Australia, is very relevant to modern-day New Zealand’, she said. When not acting, Lamont is a keen member of the Devonport Walkers and loves yoga classes at the Community House.

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Playcentre leader sent off in style and song Ann Langis got a colourful send-off after 10 years at Narrow Neck Playcentre, where she has served as treasurer, president, and educator.

Past and present kids and parents spoke and sang about Langis’s contribution to early childhood education.

But while leaving the day-to-day operations at Narrow Neck, Langis is still involved in playcentre development. She recently joined the New Zealand Playcentre Federation as a trustee board member, after serving as president of the North Shore Playcentre Association for the last two years.

One of her aims is to ensure the organisation stays strong by reducing the administrative burdens on local centres., “When I think of what I love about playcentre, it kind of boils down to playing.

I love to play and I don’t understand why adults seem to stop playing,” Langis said in her farewell speech.

Langis’s three children, Sydelle (12), Nova (9) and Felix (5) have all come through Narrow Neck Playcentre.

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March 24, 2016

Now you see it: local history revealed

Signs of the times... outside the former premises of Reese-George chemists A glimpse into Devonport’s past was offered briefly during recent renovations to set up the new Ray White office in Victoria Rd. Two signs for J. Reese-George & Co chemist were uncovered.

The signs were veranda dividers, flanking the original chemist store, and possibly painted in the 1950s.

They disappeared just as quickly. One of the builders removed them and took them home to make a coffee table, the Flagstaff was told.

David Reese-George, grandson of John Reese-George, spoke to the Flagstaff about the history of the local three-generation Devonport family pharmacy, which opened more than 100 years ago and was sold on to Peter Wigmore in the mid-1980s.

David lives in Piha, but his mother Mabel Reese-George lived at 57 Clarence St until she died in October 2015, aged 96. The family had owned the house since the 1920s, he says.

John Reese-George took over an already established pharmacy in 1910 with business partner Fred Audley. “John did mostly gentlemanly things, like hunting and trout and deep-sea fishing,” says David, “but he was also an extremely skilful gambler and had a good poker face. He managed to finance one of two pharmacies [he opened a second one in Takapuna] by playing poker with one of Auckland’s top players at the time.”

John’s son Jack took over when John retired. “My father Harry was Jack’s brother and when Jack retired I took over both shares

Osteopathy is a hands on therapy that successfully alleviates a wide variety of symptoms. The Devonport clinic has been running for 14 years helping young and old alike.

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of the business from my uncle,” David says.

“I remember how in the early days, when my grandfather ran the shop, the footpath was higher than the floor inside and you had to step down when you came in.

“And once I owned it, we found out that the brick wall on the northern side actually belonged to the butchers’ shop next door that was about to be demolished. They lawyers came to tell us and we actually bought a foot of land off them to keep the wall,” he says.

The butcher’s shop is now Westpac Bank.

David says of his mother Mabel: “She was a housemother to three children while doing contract work as a seamstress and dress designer. She could look at drawings of the latest Parisian fashion and turn them into high-society dresses.”

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March 24, 2016

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Upgraded Lake Rd will still get jammed

Less than 700 days has passed in our lives and Fulton Hogan are resealing Victoria Rd again, ripping off the top and using a fandango machine – looks like multimillion dollar gear.

The speed of the job was impressive, and the bill to your rates will be coming shortly, with another 10 per cent increase this year to pay for the work. Calliope Rd just got the makeover too. Its old road surfaces were actually, in roading terms, still brand new.

Who is ordering this work? Have we got money to burn? Regent St got a cheap tar and gravel reseal – a mess six months ago – that rubbish trucks ripped up the next day. The tar and gravel tracks into the properties even now, unbelievable, and again the road surface was in sound condition prior to the works.

Ryman and Bayswater marina and the pending Maori land developers must be so happy now that Lake Rd has, out of nowhere, been given number one priority, from last to first place for a reseal and rebuild long argued over.

We have waited for decades and out of the blue, we are now top priority. That should

extinguish the protests against Ryman and Baywater and the high-density developers coming in here developing Special Housing Areas with partners yet to be named.

Auckland Transport will foul up the design of Lake Rd, that is certain – they show no connectivity in their roading networks or their brains. The new road won’t deal with school buses or kids or bikes, nor will it have coordinated light systems. It won’t attend to the real causes of congestion at all. We will instead have four choked lanes, not two, and the stopgo fiasco at the motorway on-ramp that chokes us at all hours of the day and weekends, will continue to choke Lake Rd back to Devonport, along with moronic driver habits. Lake Rd is like the road to nowhere. When it’s all jammed up and brand new I’ll be passing you lot on the footpaths or in right-turning lanes.

Thank AT and Maggie for backing the developers during these critical resourceconsent processes.

Democracy is alive and well Want new roads? Vote Maggie.

Ron Dykman

Ideal spot for complex

Housing election issue

I think that the Whakakura block is perfect for a retirement village. It is a much-needed development for Devonport, because elderly people in the area do not want to leave their friends here or the area they know.

It is also lower than the surrounding land, which means that a tall building, or several tall buildings, will not shade other houses but only the mangroves and a muddy underused beach if anything at all. I have often looked at this land and thought it eminently suitable for a high-rise, as the views out to the Rangitoto Channel would be excellent from a multistorey building.

In fact a restaurant on top would be nice as one would see all around the area. Elderly people love to have a view and really appreciate it. Houses around this area in Ngataringa Rd should be able to look over the top of this and still get their views of Mt Victoria.

Some folk will be sure to find some fault with the plans, but personally I believe it will not harm other people living around it.

Maureen McMillan

The arrogance of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chairman Joseph Bergin is beyond belief. He is now an expert supporting iwi’s high-density housing adjacent to Eversleigh Rd. He is one of the few who supported the closing of the Takapuna Beach camping ground, and one must question who he is purporting to represent.

It is certainly not the local residents, who will have to put up with an already very congested Lake Rd, despite proposals to widen it.

It is interesting to note the proposal to widen Lake Rd was recently not even on Auckland Transport’s priority list, but is now top of it. It seems iwi lobbying of Auckland Transport has been very effective.

However, this does not answer the question of inadequate infrastructure and overloaded local schools. Whilst high-density housing is to be applauded in new areas of the city, where it has been planned for, it should not be foisted on residents in older parts of the city. It is hoped residents have long memories and know who not to vote for at the next local-body elections.

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March 24, 2016

Off the table: wharf bus shelter A controversial proposal for a bus shelter along Devonport’s waterfront appears to have been shelved by local authorities.

An Auckland Transport (AT) report presented at the March Devonport-Takapuna Local Board meeting said: “AT confirms that the Devonport wharf project did not include shelters or canopy so as not to obstruct the harbour views for residents and visitors.”

A bus shelter outside the wharf was

one of four “proposed improvements” to the recent wharf development, and the community was consulted in May 2014.

At the time, 73 per cent of submitters opposed the bus shelter, saying it was “unnecessary,” would “spoil the sea views” and “ruin the waterfront”.

Until now, AT maintained it had not made an official decision on whether or not the shelter construction would proceed.

Stanley Bay Beach parking Narrowing the footpath along Stanley Bay Beach is being investigated by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and Auckland Transport to tackle an ongoing illegal parking issue.

Residents have complained throughout summer about cars parking on the reserve.

Auckland Council North Shore ward councillor Chris Darby, a Stanley Bay resident, has seen up to 20 cars parked there on many occasions. Local board member Mike Cohen says in the short term council’s parks department was looking into placing rocks on the tarmac abutting the reserve to prevent vehicle access.

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March 24, 2016

Aggravated robbery and stolen cars, but less offences overall

with Devonport Community Constable Jasmine Bundle

Hello readers, This past month has seen a reduction of offences in our area, which I attribute to the many people who are being proactive by reporting suspicious people and questioning the behaviours of people not known in their area.

We are seeking information about an aggravated robbery, which occurred on Corrella Rd at approximately 10.15pm on 12 March. We are unable to release more specific details, but if you saw anything suspicious in the area around that time, please contact me on 021 1921159.

We received a report last month of a registration plate being stolen from a vehicle parked on Queens Parade. Some readers may not be aware that criminals will steal registration plates to attach to a different vehicle in order to commit crime

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and have less chance of being apprehended.

The Neighbourhood Support North Shore Committee runs a Safer Plates programme, in which volunteers will replace the screws on your registration plate with a more secure alternative that makes stealing them more difficult. The Safer Plates programme is usually run in a public carpark and they ask for a small donation of $4 to cover costs. Keep an eye out for them in your area if you would like to take advantage of this scheme and help protect yourself from being a victim of this vehicle crime.

Vehicles have been stolen from Queens Parade (overnight 3-4 March), Ascot Ave (overnight 5-6 March) and Lake Road, Belmont (17 March).

Another vehicle was broken into on Grahame St on 3 March. The vehicle sustained damage but was not stolen as it is believed one of the offenders saw a neighbour watching them.

At the end of last month, a vehicle parked in the driveway of a property on First Ave, Stanley Point, was broken into and a set of golf clubs was stolen.

A burglary occurred at Aramoana Ave on 10 March. A red sea kayak (Swing Kayak

by Perception), black-and-white paddle and four kayak harnesses were taken.

A report of wilful damage on Philomel Crescent was received on 4 March. This was most likely caused by someone throwing a rock at a window, causing it to smash.

If you are travelling away for the Easter weekend remember to keep your property secure, tell your neighbours and enlist the help of a house-sitter.

Safe travels and Happy Easter everyone!

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Using the latest Biometric techniques, which means less drilling and stronger teeth

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healthy mouth = healthy life Dr. Andrew Steele

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Walk to the summit of Mt Victoria.

Leave at 10am from Windsor Reserve band rotunda.

Organised by the Combined Churches of Belmont and Devonport.

HOLY WEEK & EASTER SERVICES 20th—27th March Holy Trinity Anglican Church

20 Church St, Devonport 445-0378 Palm Sunday 20 March 8am Traditional Eucharist 9.30am Contemporary Communion

Maundy Thursday 7pm Maundy Thursday Service

Devonport Methodist Church

Cnr Lake Rd & Owens Rd 445-0042 Thursday 6pm Passover Meal & Service

Please email admin@devonportmethodist.org.nz if you want to come.

Good Friday 2pm Devotions on the Cross

Good Friday 9am Short Devotional Service Easter Sunday 10am Easter Celebration

Easter Sunday 8am Traditional Eucharist 9.30am Contemporary Communion

St Francis de Sales & All Souls Catholic Church

St Augustine’s Anglican Church 95 Calliope Rd, Devonport

445-0378

“The Journey to the Cross”

A Prayer Walk for Everyone

20 March—26 March Daily 5pm --7pm

Easter Saturday 26 March 5pm

Vigil & Eucharist

The Light Devonport Church

90A Victoria Rd, Devonport 445-1580 Easter Sunday 10.am Contemporary Family Service

St Lukes Roman Catholic Church

Cnr Bayswater & Rosyth Aves 489-6338 Easter Sunday 10.30am Easter Mass

2A Albert Rd, Devonport

445-0078

Holy Thursday 7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday 3pm Passion & Veneration of the Cross Holy Saturday 8pm Easter Vigil Mass Easter Sunday 9am Easter Mass

St Margaret’s Presbyterian Church 151 Lake Rd, Devonport

445-1855

Good Friday 9am Devotional Service Easter Sunday 10am Easter Service

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Professional Services

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LOUNGE SUITE

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Call us for a free quotation and put the life back into that favourite chair or lounge suite

AWARD FURNITURE Phone COLIN on 480 5864

Dr. Adrian Stocco The Arcade, Devonport 445 8030 www.villagechiropractic.co.nz

Ph Stewart 445 4247 or 021 790911

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• Fast, reliable & cost effective • Windows computers & iPad Setup • Wi-Fi networking and ADSL broadband • New computers custom built • Repairs, Upgrades, Servicing • Virus & Spyware removal

Get it right first time with a Microsoft Certified Professional

Christopher Jones Ph 445 7810

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Clean Green is delighted to have S CURTAINS BLINDS relocated back to Devonport, servicing the local community.

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SHUTTERS CURTAINS BLINDS Vision examinations Glaucoma checks Contact lenses and solutions Spectacle repairs Driver’s licence certificates

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March 24, 2016

Devonport i-SITE finally finds its way to offer heritage maps Around 2,000 free heritage-walk maps have “flown out the doors” of Devonport Library this summer after the local i-SITE initially refused to stock them.

Devonport Rotary, who commissioned the maps, said it was told by i-SITE staff that if Rotary was allowed to display brochures for free, it would set a problematic precedent for other community organisations.

But Devonport Rotary events director Colin Cannon reckons Rotary was actually providing a service. The maps promote Devonport as a tourist destination, he says.

Three weeks ago, Devonport i-SITE relented and now stocks the Devonport Heritage Walk maps on its shelves without Rotary having to pay. Ironically this turnaround occurred as the major influx of tourists to Devonport was winding down.

Devonport Rotary members diligently researched and designed four different walking maps.

“Our members have collectively written them. We passed them by Devonport Heritage to make sure what we said was correct and

then got permission from the owners of the properties featured,” Cannon says.

The overall goal is to support local businesses and Devonport’s new Business Improvement District, he says.

The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board saw the merit of the project and footed the $10,000 printing bill.

Each map outlines a one-hour walk – through the town centre, along the waterfront, across Fort Takapuna and around Mt Victoria.

“They can be done one at a time or linked together into a two-, three- or four-hour walk as well,” Cannon says.

The maps have been a big success. As well as the library allocation, another 2,000 maps have been picked up at the Devonport Community House, the Navy Museum, Devonport Museum and the Esplanade Hotel, and now also at the Devonport i-SITE,Cannon says.

Cannon is already talking about a possible reprint for next year.

“We want to be ready for the next tourist season,” he says.

19 March to 6 April

Janet Mazenier: Leveraged Paintings that explore the relationship between humans and the architecture of their spaces.

Nina Levesque with Susan Lee: One And The Same

Personal Trainer

Works inspired by the game of Chinese Whispers.

www.janetklee.co.nz

Janet Klee, REPS-registered Personal Trainer, brings you innovative and resultsdriven Personal Training.

One-on-One training, with a friend or a small group. Outdoors or in a gym.

Personalised and tailored to suit you and help you achieve all of your goals.

Fitness / Toning / Rehabilitation /

Weight loss / Nutrition / Over 50s

• Personalised programmes • Small group circuits • Train by yourself or with a friend • Four-weekly assessments • Weekly tracking

Making exercise fun! personaltrainerjanet@gmail.com

021 101 9695

Available at Devonport Health & Gym Club

The Vernacular Lounge A space that celebrates the vernacular of Aotearoa New Zealand through publications, videos and artwork.

www.depotartspace.co.nz Monday 12pm to 5pm Tuesday – Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday and Public Holidays 11am to 3pm 28 Clarence St, Devonport Ph 963 2331

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March 24, 2016

Grammar SCHOOL NEWS

MARCH 24, 2016

Helping take care of our environment The year has started with a bang for the Environmental Group, with two successful after-school clean-ups having already taken place; one at Takapuna Beach and one in the school grounds.

Organised by student leaders Grace Cowley, Emilly Fan and Harvey Merton, both clean-ups have served to keep the local and school community rubbish-free and lessen the harmful impacts of careless littering on vulnerable marine life.

The beach clean-up not only involved picking up bottles and wrappers, but also placed a particular emphasis on collecting ‘nurdles’, which are extremely small plastic balls used as a raw material in plastics manufacturing. “They are spilled or mishandled by factories and end up in the sea or washed up onto beaches. Nurdles do not biodegrade and are often mistaken for fish eggs; therefore they pose a large risk to marine life,” says Grace.

The school clean-up was organised in celebration of New Zealand’s annual Seaweek. First held in 1992, Seaweek continues to be a time when passionate environmentalists hold events to increase participation and awareness on marine issues. The theme for 2016 is ‘Toiora te Moana – Toiora te Tangata – Healthy Seas, Healthy People.’

“An alarming amount of rubbish is blown from land into the waters, so this school clean-up helps to reduce that number,” says Claire Kang, a member of the group.

Multiple groups of three were allocated to different areas of the school.. Seven large bags of rubbish were collected in an hour and this proved to be an enjoyable and satisfying experience for all students involved. Reusable bags and gloves were kindly given to the group by Sustainable Coastlines.

BY EMILLY FAN

Saffie Doughty was one of the three TGS Hi Well Trust scholarship winners on the day.

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March 24, 2016

Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

A passion for petanque Dressed in striped tops and berets, 15 enthusiastic students represented our school in the All Schools Petanque Tournament, organised by the Alliance Française in mid-March. This year, the competition attracted over 45 teams from across Auckland, making it the most competitive year yet. The venue was the Herne Bay Petanque Club and competition started early in the morning.

All teams played five rounds, with each round ending after 40 minutes, or once 11 points had been reached.

“Although it rained in the morning, we still had a great time and got to experience an aspect of French culture,” says Emilly Fan, a Year 12 participant.

A delicious French lunch was prepared by the volunteers for all participants and the TGS teacher co-ordinator, Madame Ellis, also brought along a variety of French pastries and snacks.

At the end of the day, a team from Rangitoto College won and took home the trophy. Some other prizes were given out including a “Best-dressed” prize and a French quiz competition prize.

BY KATE FAN

Grammar MARCH 24, 2016

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It’s not over till…

Paddy plays piano In 2015, after having performed piano concertos with the Devonport Chamber Orchestra (DCO) for 12 consecutive years, Paddy Cornfield announced that he was retiring. However, his retirement was short-lived. Cornfield has agreed to play Tchaikovsky’s popular first Piano Concerto again this year, in a programme that includes Mendelssohn’s dramatic Ruy Blas Overture.

The concert will be held at 2pm on 17 April at Holy Trinity Church (tickets at the door, adults $20, children under 12 free).

Cornfield said the real turning point of his comeback was during the Christmas break.

“Over the years, we in ‘The Music House’ have been blessed with amazing neighbours, tolerant of our practice demands, and of our overgrown garden.

One benefit of retirement would be more spare time to address this lamentable state of affairs.

“Thus, I attacked the front ‘hedge’ – it was becoming impossible to find the mailbox. Progress was slow, but at least not stationary. I was resting on the clippers, when the neighbours came by. They have an immaculate property. They also mow my berm, as did the previous neighbours – you see the scale of the problem.

“Chatting away, they commented in a disappointed tone: ‘We haven’t heard you practising the piano recently’. I wanted to weep. I’m not even sure if they enjoy classical music.

“So here we go again – concert number 13.”

March 24, 2016

Digger falls by the wayside

Digging the action… the accident quickly attracted the attention of a gaggle of neighbouring children. From left: Nat Belcher (4), Pania Rowe-Karanui (9), Naida Belcher (4), Izzy Fox (10), Jacob (2) and Maia (10) Scott.

A large digger toppled off a loading truck The digger’s owner refused to give any and onto the back of a ute outside a house information on how the accident happened, on Northboro Road last week. but said nobody was injured.

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ACCOMMODATION

FOR SALE

SERVICES OFFERED

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TUITION

Cheltenham Beach Studio.

Stunning studio with new fit-out only metres from the beach. Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Self-contained with separate access and private garden. Wi-Fi included. Phone Mike 021 747 526.

Cheltenham: 2 dbl br. Private Beach access daily or weekly rent. Fully furnished. ph 445 3008.

Classy 3 bedroom, 2 full bath, fully furnished Devonport house on Achilles Reserve near Narrow Neck. More information go to www. devonporttuihouse.weebly.com or www.sabbaticalhomes.com.

Ph: 445 7895.

Devonport short let. Large, comfortable, 4 bed fully furnished family home available for rent short term.

Great location, close to Vauxhall shops and views down Cheltenham beach.

Phone: 022 3175 401.

Holiday Accommodation Cheltenham, absolute beachfront. One double and two singles, shady setting, everything supplied. Ph 445 3008.

Relatives visiting? Spacious garden studio with en-suite and kitchenette; minutes to Narrow Neck beach. Reasonable rates.

Ph Pauline 445 6471.

Stunning Cheltenham Beach Cottage, metres from the beach. Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedroom, self-contained cottage with a private garden. Phone Rebekah 027 694 3933 or email devonportbeks@gmail.com

Business Opportunity for Te a c h e r D e v o n p o r t a r e a .

Love teaching but not paperwork and meetings? Looking for lifestyle and to work from home? Would like to earn $70k plus for a 20-hour week? Full training provided. $52k and some set-up costs. Contact Eve 022 341 1716/iywalton@gmail.com

Builder available Small job specialist, repairs and maintenance.

Skilled, reliable and local. Please phone Clive Melling. Hm 445 2485, Mob 027 29 222 84.

Cars wanted dead or alive. Top dollar paid $360 to $1700 for any small car, $800 to $15,000 for vans, utes, 4WD and trucks. Free retrieval 0800 3333 98.

Cleaning Maid Easy Use own cleaning products and gear.

Reliable/trustworthy/mature lady. References available Please contact Sharon - 021 405 596.

Counselling Low-cost counselling offered by experienced narrative therapist (BA Psychology) completing practicum hours. $30/hr. Please contact Sarah for confidential, no-obligation discussion: 022 678 1880.

Curtains & Roman Blinds Free measure, quote and design advice. 20 years’ experience. Phone Sara 027 625 5844.

Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles. Recycling furniture for 36 years. John Hancox, phone: 446-0372.

Devonport Window Repairs.

Sash and casement windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry. For your local window specialist. Phone Hubert Strang 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

Diggadrain. Drain unblockers and drainage experts. CCTV drain locating. Repairs. New drains.

0800 your drain.

D o g g ro o m i n g a v a i l a b l e .

Full groom, bath and blow dry, puppy introduction to grooming. Devonport-based.

Call Barbara 021 141 0331.

Gardener Available Qualified and experienced landscape designer. Enjoys getting his hands dirty. Good plant knowledge.

Hardworking, reliable and creative with plantings. Contact Paddy 022 502 2122 or 446 6188 paddyvogt@gmail.com Gardening. Do you need regular help? No time for a tidy up? Let me help. Experienced gardener. Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or 027 292 8167 for a free on-site consultation.C Handyman. Mature professional in Devonport, Bayswater area. Repairs, painting, those jobs you just don’t have time to do. Free quote. References.

Ph. Brian 021 150 8898.

Housekeeper. Home cleaning, including windows, washing, ironing, furniture polishing. Experienced. References. $25 per hour. Ph 442 2273, 027 4926220.

Housewashing. Get your house clean for the holidays by contacting Bubble Boys house washing.

We clean windows, doors, weatherboards, garages and outbuildings. Support local, hard-working and reliable high-school Devonport boys by contacting us at seanslreeves@gmail.com or call 021 0621 750 to get a free quote.

We are very reasonably priced. We protect paint by using soft brushes only. We can also provide water blasting for concrete driveways, paths and patios if needed.

Housewashing, prof. service, 10 years-plus experience, reliable and prompt. Free quotes, also decks, driveways, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc.

Phone Rod 021 390 800.

Ironing: Professional, reliable, fast turnaround. Call Denise or Peter 486-1614/0223-552-350.

Landscaping – Format Landscapes, 18 years’ experience, Dip. Landscape Design. Design and build. We undertake all aspects of hard and soft landscaping including decks, paving, fences, retaining walls, planting etc.

Small to large projects. Free quote www.formatlandscapes.co.nz.

Call Matt 021 599107.

L o c k s m i t h , D e v o n p o r t ’s own Scott Richardson.

Mob 021 976 607.

Tagbuster, graffiti looked after Devonport to Hauraki Corner.

Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, 0800 2684 824.

Window Cleaning for houses and businesses. For a free quote call Ivan 473 6631.

ART CLASSES @ D’Port Community house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art. ph Lucy Bucknall - 446 0389.

Art Classes for Children.

Wednesdays 3.20 - 5.20 in artist’s home studio by the sea, Devonport. Term One “Pet Apartment” Painting, Drawing Project. Contact Erica Soman MFA Dip Tchg 021 127 9671 erica_artist@xtra.co.nz Children’s Clay Classes. Come and create your own coastal inspired beachcomber wreath. Every Thursday from 4.30-6pm ph 021 0233 1834 to book your place.

6 years and upwards. Beginners welcome. 6 weeks $125, includes materials.

Learn piano/keyboard. Lessons from $19.00. Private, Professional, Affordable, Enjoyment for all ages. Competitions, Practical, Theory Exams.

NZ Modern School of Music 0800-696-874.

Mathematics and Statistics.

Individual lessons with a friendly, experienced tutor. NCEA 1 & 2, school years 3 -12. Weekdays and Saturdays, $40/hour. Phone Gillian Steele BCom 488 7059 gillrsteele@hotmail.com Mathematics Tuition, Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curriculum.

NCEA, IB and Cambridge welcomed. 100% pass rate in 2015.

NCEA 3 calculus specialist. Ph Peter Ridge BE,Dip Tchg (sec) 445 2283.

Singing lessons in Devonport.

Contract Dr Sue Braatvedt 473 9113 or 027 3402884. All ages.

Stitch Birds Embroidery Classes for students 8 to 18 years. Learn with the experts and create small interesting projects. $10 for two afternoons of stitching. 27th and 28th April 1-3.00pm. Email stitchbirdscreate@gmail.com or phone Lynn 445 3661.

SLSS Swim School, 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road).

Specialists in preschoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.

REST HOMES Ascot House Retirement Home, quality care with dignity in a friendly, family atmosphere. Phone Shona, 445 2518.

Komatua Care Centre – We care for older people who have memory loss and behavioural difficulties. Professional care is given in a nurturing environment. For all enquiries - phone 445 1707.

SERVICES OFFERED 10 YEARS’ experience. Home cleaning. Husband and wife. Honest, reliable, careful workers. All equipment supplied. References available.

Ph Joyce 022 073 1550.

At Your Request Home Cleaning.

Our local team is ready to deliver 5-Star services in your home for weekly cleaning, spring, moving or open-home cleaning. Call Yv o n n e f o r a f r e e q u o t e 415 0028.

Bookkeeping/Payroll Are you a small business located in the Devonport area? Do you need someone for a few hours each week to help you keep your accounts in order? I can do your bookkeeping/accounts/payroll and IRD returns so that everything is ready for your accountant at the end of the financial year! Contact Vicki on 021 845543.

Real Estate

buying, selling, renting

SITUATIONS VACANT Hauraki home services.

Part-time cleaner wanted, own car, reliable and honest.

Police check required. Ph Sophie 021 0254 8044.

Senior Accounts Administrator – All encompassing Accounts role available with a small company based in Devonport. Must have high level accounts experience as well as large system knowledge and be a positive, self motivated team player. Ideally part time role 25-30 hours per week – to discuss please contact Katie at Team Recruitment (09) 525 5397 or send your CV to Katie@teamrecruitment.co.nz TUITION Acoustic and classical guitar, music theory. Fun, comprehensive, tailored to you! Devonport-based.

Michelle Birch, BMus (Hons) michellebirch@zoho.com, www.michellebirch.com

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    Tips for trouble-free computing      Q:  Over recent weeks I have found a different start-up page has taken over from Google NZ and having       deleted it from Start Up in my Google Chrome settings, it still keeps opening up instead of Google. I     went into Programs and Features, and deleted ‘Start my Search’. How can I get rid of ‘My Search’?       A:  This program is a kind of ‘browser hijacker’ and you need to go into Control Panel > Programs and Features       and uninstall it from there.

You may also need to go into the Settings for Google Chrome and make sure       it is not listed as an add-in, plug-in or optional extra there also. Sometimes these rogue programs can be       difficult to disengage with Google Chrome – one of the reasons I don’t recommend Chrome as a browser.      If it is still a problem, then uninstall Google Chrome as well…       Q:  Should I take the free upgrade to Windows 10? I am currently on Windows 7.

Upcycle your laptop      Wanted: old laptops still in working A: Whilst some people have reported to me that they have upgraded to Windows 10 painlessly and       condition to refurbish and donate to the  seamlessly, people have also reported the following problems: Red Cross Refugee service.      If you are upgrading, I will pass on  - after upgrading to Windows 10, the version of Microsoft Office they were using no longer worked    your old computers to help refugees.  properly, so you may need to spend $400 on this free upgrade to keep Word and Excel working !      - after doing the upgrade, their printer no longer worked.     - some people found their email program stopped working and they couldn’t access any emails.     Q:  If I have upgraded to Windows 10, can I go back to what I had before?      A:  Yes you can – provided that you do this within a month of installing Windows 10. 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Unfortunately this proved     Why go anywhere else?!  impossible – on putting in the Windows 7 DVD to effect the repair, a message came up saying that we     needed to use the correct disc to repair the Windows installation… In other words, the computer still had     remnants of Windows 10 on it rendering the Windows 7 repair disc completely ineffective!   

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Jumping out of his shadow‌ Gracian Hern in action at the skatepark

with BID Manager Judy Grieve

A Golden Summer The Regional Tourism Estimate (RTE) figures released in November 2015 by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) revealed total tourism expenditure in Auckland increased by 15% in the year ended March 2015, with international visitors contributing $3.227 billion (up 18%) and domestic visitors $3.268 billion (up 8%).

In Devonport, recent Marketview Activity Reports show the real impact of increased international visitor activity with a 22.7% increase in annual international visitor spend in the 2014/15 year compared to a 2.2% increase in 2013/14.

We have seen even better results over the last two quarters, with a 40.1% increase in international spend and a 24.5% increase in the number of international transactions in the September quarter. The December quarter saw a 33.6% increase in international spend and a 29.6% increase in the number of international transactions.

Based on the busy summer season that we have enjoyed, we anticipate a similar, if not better, result in the March quarter.

The visitor economy describes all of the goods and services that meet the needs of both international and domestic visitors. In terms of individual spending, it is the highly sought-after tourists who spend the most money, but in terms

of volume, the many other kinds of visitors to Devonport are a valuable source of new spending and vital word-of-mouth marketing about our unique and special place.

Destinations that succeed in attracting and satisfying their visitors create unique, memorable experiences. We need to consider the perspectives of all of our customers, both local and international, and to embrace our town centre in all of its diversity, rather than through the sometimes prescriptive view of traditional tourism and hospitality services.

The Devonport-Takapuna area is poorly supported by regional tourism initiatives. We need a well-resourced effective visitor information centre with a local focus to support a high-quality, high-value, well-marketed visitor economy.

In Auckland there appears to be some confusion about the different roles of local authorities, local boards, ATEED, BIDs, and CCOs in researching, attracting and welcoming visitors. There are dangers of a lack of clarity and purpose in our visitor economy activity. This can only be addressed through a sharing of expertise, knowledge and resources between everyone involved in creating thriving town centres.

Overseas and local research shows that when the activities of BIDs, local authorities and regional tourism organisations complement each other in the visitor economy, the benefits are clear.

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Final full of locals at Scotty Brewer Skate Day

Winning form… Harry Waine takes to the half-pipe Three Devonport skateboarders competed for the top three placings in the 16 and Unders at the Scotty Brewer Skate Day at Ngataringa Park this year.

Benn Gibb, Jakob Hayward and Harry Waine all made it through the heats to the final, with Harry finally landing first place, Jakob second and Benn third.

In the 13 and Under division, local boy Will Gibb landed third behind winner Brooklyn Murdoch and Cato Dobbs in

second place.

In the Open division, local Simon Rex was third, behind Sean Bone and “Mad Mike” Bancroft in first and second respectively.

Steve Hodges, the owner of OnBoard Skateboard School, ran the competition.

He says that with 40 skaters this year, the number of skaters at the Devonport event was steadily growing. “Out of three competitions we ran on the Shore so far, it has been the most popular one,” he says.

With 17 competitors in the 13 and Under division, the number of young skaters was encouraging, he says. “Everyone was talking about how many of the younger kids were getting into skating.”

The event is held in honour of the late Scotty Brewer, a local teenager and skater, who helped design the skatepark. Scotty died in 1999. His parents Jenny and Craig continue to donate the winners’ cups in honour of Scotty each year.

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